INFOGRAPHIC SERIES - SIMPLE PENCIL

Here is a simple Pencil creation that takes a few simple steps and gives you a great pencil. Fast, easy, fun and looks great. I do so love things that are this simple and turn out this good.

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Start off with drawing a rectangle, fill it with a color, no stroke. 

Duplicate that rectangle. Click on it, hold OPTION and drag it down to duplicate it. 

Use COMMAND + D to duplicate the rectangle again. Add a  fill in each rectangle to give it the look of shaded sides. 

Draw a triangle. Use the Polygon tool, click and draw and while holding the mouse, use the DOWN ARROW to reduce the number of sides until you get to a triangle. Fill it with brown, no stroke.

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Copy that same triangle, then resize it and fill it with black. Align it with the tip of the triangle. 

Place both triangles at the end of the sets of rectangles.

Create the eraser by drawing a rectangle the height of the 3 rectangles of the body of the pencil.

Use the Direct Selection Tool to select the left 2 corners and highlight the corner widgets to round the corners. 

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Place the eraser in place at the end of the pencil. You are done!